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||1910 – Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) | ||1910 – Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) | ||
File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] and Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements. | File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements. | ||
||1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California. | ||1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California. | ||
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1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.
1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1931: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.